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Suppressing the vote or stopping fraud: The voter ID debate

On October 25, the St. Louis Federalist Society and the Show-Me Institute co-sponsored a debate entitled “Suppressing the Vote or Stopping Fraud: The Voter ID Debate.” It featured John Fund of The American Spectator and Denise Lieberman of Advancement Project. The Hon. Robert Dierker of the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri moderated. The debate gets into full swing at 1:19.

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Did you see on The Right Scoop the North Carolina Democrat stupid enough to have said he had voted four times in three different places (one spot he voted twice) and he was planning on voting election day? I’m sure officials know him, as hundreds have reported him to NC election officials.

Listening to numbnuts talking about how asking for a Photo ID for voting is such a hardship. Did a little research, and in about two minutes came up with a long list of things that, apparently, disenfranchised people are not doing, because they don’t have a Photo ID (which are free in most states.)

ROUTINE THINGS THAT REQUIRE A PHOTO ID:
Applying for welfare, food stamps, or other government assistance
Using an Electronic Benefits Transfer card, issued to welfare recipients
Obtaining medical care using Medicaid
Obtaining food from a local food pantry (Wisconsin)
Securing employment (eVerify List B requirement)
Obtaining a library card
Opening bank accounts, cash checks, etc.
Using a credit card, or returning items to the store for a refund
Entering most law enforcement, DHS government buildings
Picking up mail at the U.S. Postal Service
Purchasing public transportation passes
Purchasing, or “exchanging or refunding tickets” on Amtrak
Claiming lottery winnings
Applying for a marriage license
Serving as a Boy Scout leader or camp volunteer
Serving as a youth sports volunteer
Flying on a commercial airline flight
Getting a tattoo or body piercings
Entering a public dump or selling scrap metals like copper
Renting videos
Renting a car, U-Haul, or trailer
Applying for a building permit, public gathering permit, business license, hunting license
Registering a motor vehicle
Engaging in cash transactions of $5000 or more
Taking the SATs or ACTs
Claiming senior citizen exemption to additional 1% sales tax(South Carolina)
Purchasing tobacco products, purchase alcohol or enter a bar
Purchasing firearms or ammunition
Purchasing prescription medication
Purchasing over-the-counter cough syrup containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and other methamphetamine precursors
Purchasing drain-cleaning products like Drano (Illinois)
Purchasing spray paint
Purchasing M-rated video games
Purchasing tickets to n movie rated NC-17, R, or X

This is so fluking stupid. I have only voted in the last three elections and every time I was asked for an ID. I just assumed that how it was across the nation. The idea that someone in today’s America can’t get some form of ID is completely asinine to me and should be to anyone with a function brain. What I find most amazing is those who think people should have to prove that they are who they say they are in order to cast their ballot are somehow racist. It’s the left who is racist for assuming blacks are too stupid to get an ID.

But that’s just who the left is. Wake up black America. The democrat party hates you and thinks you’re fools! Wake up and prove them wrong! Stop blindly following their marching orders.

Seriously, the failure of some people to actually take the time to get an ID that they have to use for so many things (VastRightWingConspirator on November 4, 2012 at 10:23 PM) isn’t really believable.

Now voter fraud, on the other hand, has been repeatedly demonstrated in multiple jurisdictions.

Why don’t they issue ID cards when you register to vote? They know it’s you, they mail the card, problem solved. if they want to get fancy, give it an ID # too and match it up at the poll when you vote. No match, no vote!

You also need a state issued ID to get your university ID so you can get in & out of your dorm. And at most dorms you can’t visit friends/family unless you let the dorm security hold onto your state issued ID.

Another fake question from the liberals. This assumes that asking for an ID to vote amounts to “suppressing the vote”. Who is suppressed by having to prove who they are before they are allowed to vote?? How is that voter suppression? It’s not!! Unless you want to argue that preventing voter fraud is also voter suppression. I guess in that case it is, suppressing fraud is in fact, suppression, but if you don’t suppress fraudulent votes than why have an election at all?

I agree with VastRightWingConspirator. Democrats are just fine with voter fraud. And, our current Attorney General wasn’t upset at all with the Black Panther’s behavior in Philidelphia in the 2008 election. But he used his power to tell South Carolina that our Voter ID law was not legal. The same law has been passed by a number of States that are not covered by the antiquated 1964 Voters Act.